ActionScript Graphing Cookbook

Making 3D bar charts

In the recipe Building vertical bar charts in this chapter, we showed how to make a simple bar chart in ActionScript. For this recipe, we wanted to spice it up a bit and make it 3D.

Getting ready

Get the code from the Building vertical bar charts recipe.

How to do it...

The following steps will show you how to convert a 2D bar chart to 3D:

1. Take BarData.as, HorizontalAxis.as, VerticalAxis.as, and Main.as from the Building vertical bar charts recipe from this chapter; these files are not going to change.
2. Now in BarChart.as, increase the space between the bars. These are the lines that change:

   _barWidth = (width - 10) * 70 / 100 / data.length; ...